From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: [ANN] Announcing PW32 - the DJGPP 'port' to Win32
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:17:37 +0000
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:44:24 +0000, Richard Dawe
> <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:
> > Damian Yerrick wrote:
> > > It's a port of DJGPP libc to MinGW that fills in a gap called POSIX.
<snip>
> > POSIX is a standard for programming interfaces by ISO (IIRC). Many
> > Unix systems provide POSIX-compatible interfaces.
<snip>
> >I hope that helps a bit.
> 
> Thanks for expanding my macros :-)

No problem! It wasn't that long ago that I wondered what POSIX was.

The DJGPP libc documentation does note what functions are from POSIX. For
instance, try:

info libc alpha fork

OK, this is a bad example, because DJGPP doesn't support fork(), but you
can see that 'POSIX' is noted in the portability section. Aha, this is
better:

info libc alpha read

I hope to go through the Unix98 docs sometime and add Unix98 comments to
the portability section of the info docs. They might have reached Unix2001
by the time I get round to it though ;)

HTH, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/